It could, of course, be a very smart liberal ploy to make Patton a monster-man among mice, but it backfires by turning him into a hero.

| Jul 29, 2022

I'd like to pin four stars on each shoulder of George C. Scott for his perspective characterization of the military genius, the controversial man.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 22, 2015

The movie's vision blurs the man and, incidentally, the just war around him.

| Feb 22, 2015

George C. Scott's performance cannot be praised highly enough for capturing both the violence and the vulnerability of the Patton personality without degenerating either into vulgar caricature or cardboard sentimentality.

| Feb 6, 2013

War is hell, and Patton is one hell of a war picture, perhaps one of the most remarkable of its type ever made.

| Feb 19, 2008

Scott is simply awesome as the one-of-a-kind General George Patton.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2008

Nixon's favorite movie, which proves he was blind to ambiguity as well as a few other things.

| Dec 13, 2006

The film lays bare the roots of Patton's lust for power in his willingess to sacrifice everything to his vaunting ego, a trait which is mirrored in George C Scott's superb performance.

| Jun 24, 2006

It's both fascinating and appalling the sort of extravagant technically superior spectacle that only a big Hollywood movie company could afford to make, and the story of a man about whom only the Establishment could become genuinely sentimental.

| May 20, 2003

Scott strikes an unforgettable figure.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 2, 2002

Scott's theatricality is electrifying.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 24, 2002